Consciousness – allows you to be aware of your thinking and thus be aware of your experience. What you think you feel, and your relationship with yourself stems from this thinking.

Universal mind – This is the energy behind life, the source of your thinking and the source behind all of life. It’s the intelligence that makes it work, that ensures life begets life, cuts heal, and acorn seeds turn into oak trees.

The principles allow you to have this gift of experiencing life, and it’s how you use this gift that determines the quality of your relationship with yourself.

The more you see through the illusion of thought, the more thinking you can remove from your mind.

And the less thinking you have, the lighter you’ll be, the more in touch with the present moment and the more in touch you’ll be with the truth of you.

The more you experience feelings of love, happiness and wellbeing, allowing these qualities to be who you are more-and-more.

Day-to-day

Understanding that you are feeling your thinking in the moment is the first step, and the next step is to start to treat yourself differently each day.

We sometimes forget that we are in our thinking and our thinking can seem very real to us.

It helps then, to treat yourself as if you are the most important person in the world each day.

I don’t mean that you put your wants above other’s needs but do ensure that you put your needs first.

You can’t care for others until you’ve taken care of yourself.

Ask yourself, what do my behaviours say about the relationship that I have with myself?

Look at your actions during the day, do they reflect the actions you would take if you truly loved yourself?

What foods are you putting into your body?

What internal speech are you using when you feel down, depressed and unmotivated?

Are you exercising and moving your body?

Are you getting enough sleep?

Are you expressing gratitude for your life and the people around you? Gratitude really is your superpower it will change you faster than anything else.

Can’t find something to be grateful for?

Take a moment to look at the bigger picture.

You’re reading this on an electronic device, probably in a safe environment, you have food, water, shelter to hand.

Life used to be much more complicated than it is right now.

You can always make a case for how others are better off than you but you often fail to recognise how much more you have than others as well.

Be grateful for that.

Are you creating space in your life for spirituality?

Yoga, meditation, prayer, reading and attending talks or services.

You don’t have to believe in a sentient God or intelligent power.

Just recognise that you are part of something bigger than yourself.

That there is a part of your experience that is unknowable, vast, never-ending, infinite…

Are you setting boundaries?

Removing toxic people and relationships from your life and eliminating or reducing toxic habits and behaviours?

If not start removing them today.

No rush start small but work on improving your habits day-by-day.

Play!

We forget that we are playful beings you take life seriously at your own risk.

Make room in your life for playfulness and games.

Have fun, enjoy your day.

There is a child in you that wants to have fun, smile, and laugh.

Play with your friends, play games on your own, be a little bit silly from time-to-time.

Accept all of your experience without limits

We have been sold a lie that you can live in a state of continuous happiness and bliss.

It’s just not possible.

Your moment-to-moment experience is always changing, and it isn’t possible to make every day a great day.

I’m not even sure that is a good idea.

I used to hate feeling sad and depressed, and there was a time in my life when I used to wake up and reach for drugs to keep me happy.

I was high at work and high at home.

I was avoiding my emotions and struggling to keep my head above water.

When my failing relationship imploded, I rushed to the doctor to grab more pills and antidepressants.

Picking up my prescription, I sat with the first pill in my hand.

My mind was suddenly quiet, and a small voice said ‘you have to feel this’.

I threw away the pills and spent the next few months in a dark place, struggling to comes to terms with who I was and where I was in my life.

But I got through it rebuilt my life found a new relationship and haven’t looked back.

To be fully human, you must embrace all of your experience darkness and light.

At the highest level, this is coming to terms with your own death and the death of everyone you will ever love.

At the day-to-day level, this means realising that pain and suffering are part of the human experience to deny this means you are denying reality and denying what it means to be human.

Foundation and Vision

We created the Yoga Loft originally from the Loft of our home. The purpose was then and continues to be a place to bring yogis together and create a community where those who love the Ashtanga & Vinyasa practice can gather in a warm, friendly, serene, and relaxed yogic environment.